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Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
posted on Thu Jan 12 14:47:14 UTC 2023 by _Microft | view on HN
This article is about a man who buys old LCD screens to play around with them and try to make them display images better than they did before.
SQLite WASM in the browser backed by the origin private file system
posted on Thu Jan 12 13:11:04 UTC 2023 by bubblehack3r | view on HN
The SQLite Wasm library with the Origin Private File System persistence backend is a replacement for Web SQL based on SQLite.
Crime App 'Citizen' Lays Off Dozens of Employees
posted on Thu Jan 12 16:22:15 UTC 2023 by danso | view on HN
Citizen is an app that is a melding of a social network and news alert service and it is focused almost entirely on crime and safety.
posted on Thu Jan 12 16:30:12 UTC 2023 by ibobev | view on HN
Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US
posted on Thu Jan 12 15:30:32 UTC 2023 by mfiguiere | view on HN
Inflation in the U.S. cooled in December, with the overall 12-month Consumer Price Index was up 6.5%.
Zen (YC S21) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer
posted on Thu Jan 12 17:00:21 UTC 2023 by handheldmouse | view on HN
Zen is a company that is on a mission to free the world of physical and mental pain by creating award-winning posture awareness software applications that gently nudge users when they slouch.
Fuckup Nights – Series of events where stories of failure are shared
posted on Thu Jan 12 15:55:41 UTC 2023 by capableweb | view on HN
The author helped organize Fuck Up Nights in Valais, Switzerland, and enjoys introducing people to the event.
posted on Thu Jan 12 15:04:27 UTC 2023 by ecliptik | view on HN
The article discusses Medium's launch of a Mastodon instance, which is an emerging force for good in social media. The instance is for short-form writing of 500 characters or less, and it is a part of the fediverse. The goal is for the me.dm instance to be a valuable home base for many people.
Geoffrey Hinton publishes new deep learning algorithm
posted on Thu Jan 12 08:22:18 UTC 2023 by danboarder | view on HN
Geoffrey Hinton's Forward-Forward algorithm (FF) is a technique for training neural networks that uses two forward passes of data through the network, instead of backpropagation, to update the model weights.
CEO Jack Altman’s email to lattice employees
posted on Thu Jan 12 16:19:52 UTC 2023 by miletus | view on HN
The Lattice CEO sent a note to employees earlier today announcing that the company will be reorganizing and that around 15% of employees will be let go.
Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
posted on Thu Jan 12 07:50:26 UTC 2023 by tsujp | view on HN
The article discusses the Kristall browser, which is a browser that does not support css/js/wasm or graphical websites.
Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden
posted on Thu Jan 12 11:30:45 UTC 2023 by daaayum | view on HN
LKAB has found a deposit of rare earth metals in the Kiruna area, which is the largest known deposit of its kind in Europe.
The curious Soviet mini-sub of South Alabama (2018)
posted on Thu Jan 12 10:46:06 UTC 2023 by vinnyglennon | view on HN
The article is about a Soviet mini-sub that was used for research and is now sitting in Bayou La Batre, Alabama.
A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system
posted on Thu Jan 12 02:30:05 UTC 2023 by bluedino | view on HN
The FAA is investigating how a file became corrupted which caused a nationwide NOTAM system outage.
Ask HN: Can you crowdfund the compute for GPT?
posted on Thu Jan 12 13:20:39 UTC 2023 by asim | view on HN
Ask HN: How can I find a German family by their crest?
posted on Thu Jan 12 14:26:59 UTC 2023 by christophilus | view on HN
New software sells new hardware – but not forever
posted on Wed Jan 11 13:34:42 UTC 2023 by redbell | view on HN
Show HN: New GraphQL API for WordPress (1.5 years of development, 16000 commits)
posted on Thu Jan 12 14:44:38 UTC 2023 by leoloso | view on HN
The article discusses the changes made for version 0.9 of the GraphQL API for WordPress, including the addition of a field to all types in the schema, the ability to fetch single entities by different properties, and the ability to filter elements via the new field argument.
Pictures of a working garbage collector
posted on Thu Jan 12 07:21:37 UTC 2023 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
Mexico’s subway drivers depend on WhatsApp to keep the trains running
posted on Thu Jan 12 14:18:55 UTC 2023 by impish9208 | view on HN
The article discusses how the use of cellphones by train operators has come under scrutiny after two trains collided, and how the operators say that they need to use their phones to communicate with each other and keep the trains running.
Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?
posted on Thu Jan 12 07:51:56 UTC 2023 by throwitawaaay | view on HN
Show HN: WunderGraph – The simplicity of RPC with the power of GraphQL
posted on Thu Jan 12 15:33:01 UTC 2023 by jensneuse | view on HN
The article discusses how WunderGraph can help developers and customers by combining data sources and services into a unified graph.
The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation
posted on Thu Jan 12 15:49:23 UTC 2023 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The article discusses how America's new industrial policy is causing a dangerous spiral into protectionism worldwide.
Intel Launches $699 Core I9-13900KS, the First 6 GHz CPU: Available Now
posted on Thu Jan 12 14:17:41 UTC 2023 by rbanffy | view on HN
The article is about the Core i9-13900KS Special Edition processor, which is available on shelves today for $699, is the world's first consumer CPU to run at 6 GHz without overclocking.
The disappearance of the hit-driven business model
posted on Thu Jan 12 05:52:40 UTC 2023 by Flatcircle | view on HN
Creative producers need to adapt to the changing industry by understanding the new business models and how to produce projects that may not seem obvious.
An engineer has built and programmed an all-robot band
posted on Wed Jan 11 15:56:01 UTC 2023 by metadat | view on HN
This article is about the Instagram account @onehackerband, which is a band made up of robots that play cover songs.
posted on Thu Jan 12 10:15:41 UTC 2023 by ruuda | view on HN
The article argues that yaml is extremely complicated, full of footguns, and its friendliness is deceptive.
Monitoring Space Weather from the Ground
posted on Thu Jan 12 16:09:19 UTC 2023 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The article discusses how scientists are developing a low-cost system to measure and observe space weather entirely from the ground using magneto-impedance (MI) sensors.
The Royally Radical Life of Margaret Cavendish (2019)
posted on Wed Jan 11 22:37:25 UTC 2023 by benbreen | view on HN
The article is about a woman named Cavendish who was the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society and the first woman to publish a collected volume of dramatic works.
Do heat pumps work in cold climates?
posted on Thu Jan 12 12:07:17 UTC 2023 by tejohnso | view on HN
The article discusses how heat pumps are efficient in heating homes, even in cold climates, and debunks some myths about their inefficiency.